hay Howard...

[PK]

might you remember this area--Sheepshead Bay--Brighton Beach--Manhattan Beach now separated at Shore Blvd at the intersection where Neptune Ave ends in Brighton Beach and continues on as Emmons Ave in Sheepshead Bay by Holocaust Park..

some pics I took in the early mornings when I stayed with my older cousin on E 24th St between Ave Z and Voorhies Ave in Sheepshead Bay.. walked down to the Fishing docks every AM.. thought I'd take a bunch of pics just to remember the area by.. you might recognize some of the places like Lundy's--which is now Cherry Hill gourmet supermarket-bistro .. but the building and name is still standing.. also Randazzo's Clam Bar.. and Stella Maris Bait and Tackle..and the fishing fleet some of which now do mainly catering for weddings and parties... who woulda thunk it... you'll see the high dollar homes over across the bay in Manhattan Beach where the creme de la creme doctors and lawyers live

here's my Webshots album link... I haven't gotten a chance to place the pics in any kind of order yet
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/573654781virnTs

and here's the map...
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114434446105658454025.000438ae1513e580a8b2e&ll=40.582475,-73.956528&spn=0.017698,0.033088&t=h&z=15

[Howard/Jax]

Ray, what memories that brings back. I remember as a little kid, my Grandmother taking me fishing. We lived in Rockaway and she would say in her broken English. Havad, ve are goin fishink at SHIPSHED. What an adventure. None of the boats we fished off looked anything like the ones in the pictures. A big one was maybe 40'. All wood. I remember the Lady Lou, the Helen H. To the Tin Can grounds for the Porgies and Sea Bass and then Long Branch for the Fluke.

Best of all I remember the great food and all the noise at Lundys. When you went to Lundy's, you knew that half the Schvartzahs in Brooklyn worked there. All except in the Clam Bar.

Thanks Ray..

[PK]

our family was friends with Tootsie ( bent nose if you get my drift) who owned the Amberjack...that's the original Amberjack... the one in the pics is the Amberjack V and only does catering these days... I was friends with his son Freddy who I w*rked with .. we were both young Insurance Claims Adjusters in the late 60's after I came back from overseas... I met Freddy again a number of years later at my Mom's funeral.. he said his Dad must be turning over in his grave if he knew they were only doing catering and not fishing anymore:D

the original one was a converted PT boat and did fishing trips day and nite.. until on one nite trip for blues they were fishing off the Ambrose lightship (buoy) .. they were out of the channel right where they were supposed to be and in heavy fog when a freighter cut them down and sunk them.. one passenger-fisherman died... they collected big time after that and had a new Amberjack built

here's my younger brother--he was friends with Tootsie's younger kid--- back in the early 60's on the Amberjack III( they ran two boats at the same time under that name) with a nice bubba fluke.. that's Tootsie in the wheelhouse

I spent many a night in the old Lundy's with my Dad and Uncle at the clam bar... and out with family at the restaurant... a great place back then... I walked thru the new converted place this time around... just couldn't believe it... a nice high dollar gourmet type supermarket... but I know it was really Lundy's...

glad I made your day.. it made mine while I was there... :D

[Zane]

I really enjoy listening to you oooold guys talk about the ooooold times :D :D

HeHeHe, actually I really do, thanks

[Howard/Jax]

Want to hear about something old Zane? For my 13th Birthday, an Uncle sent me down to a fishing equipment distributor on Broadway to pick out a fishing rod. I picked out the newest thing in those days (just after Bamboo & Italian foil steel) It was a Berylium Copper, Boat & Bay rod and a Penn reel. That was 60 years ago and while the reel is long gone, I still have the rod. Have changed the guides and and tips a few times, but it still works.

All my other fishing stuff in those days came from Herman's sporting goods on Nassau street.

Yo Raimundo, That Fluke was what we use to call a dormat. Biggest one I ever caught and the only real big one was taken in Reynolds channel at Atlantic Beach in a row boat. It was near 30". Live Killy and a strip of squid.

[DanS/FL]

Like Zane said, we like to hear youse old guys talk. It might be in a different language but we can work thru it. I had a wayward brother that took his navy discharge at the Brooklin Navy Yard in the late 40's. He was going to spend 2 weeks with a shipmate and his family. He stayed 30 years. He lived in Long Beach. His house faced Long Island Sound. I was there a few times, just passing thru. Fishing for blues and stripers.
His stores were in Linderhurst and Masepequa?
Dan

[PK]

Yo Raimundo, That Fluke was what we use to call a dormat. Biggest one I ever caught and the only real big one was taken in Reynolds channel at Atlantic Beach in a row boat. It was near 30". Live Killy and a strip of squid.

yop on the doormat...biggest fluke I ever caught to this day was in the early 60's.. 29" .. a little over 10#.. caught it on one of my weekly Monday summer fishing trips with one of my uncles on the long ride out from Coney Island to Center Moriches on the south shore--eastern Long Island--same place as where TWA Flight 800 went down in 1996 just offshore from there... ..

...my uncle had an old wooden rowboat he got from a friend who ran a marina out there.. one of their older rentals.. had a 15 hp Johnson on it... two years later he upgraded and put a 25 hp Johnson on it .. the cat's meow back then... all we used to do was 'get the scoop' and bail that thing out.. it was a hoot.. but we caught a heckuva lot of nice fish in those days.. we used to go a bit further out to Shinnecock Inlet in the Hamptons but when he got 'thee boat' that ended and we switched to Center Moriches..
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114434446105658454025.00043a07e04e253e6cc3e&ll=40.785741,-72.718506&spn=0.269308,0.529404&t=h&z=11

...we moved from Brooklyn out to Oceanside in August 1963 after I graduated high school .. when I finally got a decent boat I always fished Reynolds Channel from Long Beach over to the Rockaways... good clamming back then too...
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=40.609261,-73.755684&spn=0.135011,0.264702&t=h&z=12&msid=114434446105658454025.00046f4e457f0e47be0eb

[Bryan/BC]

Sounds like you need some Left Coasters to teach you guys how to catch BIG dormats!! :D :D :D

[Zane]

Speaking of doormats. Medium doormat & really big doormat :D :D

[PK]

Speaking of doormats. Medium doormat & really big doormat :D :D

and how did I know that one of you other coast kinda guys were gonna post about those 'fish on steroids' you have over there...

[PK]

All my other fishing stuff in those days came from Herman's sporting goods on Nassau street.


betcha missed it.. I put it in there just for you... a Coney Island Whitefish.. in Sheepshead Bay.. who woulda thunk it... right near the west end bulkhead across the street from where Brighton Beach meets Sheepshead Bay(2nd pic)

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2473089250049937141PSxsTA

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2056644960049937141GWHbXl

geez.. thought maybe you bought some of these in Herman's :)

[DanS/FL]

WOW on the door mats.,,,,,,, Dan,, :eek:,,:cool: